The last three or four years have seen a number of books, documentaries and articles on the dangers of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds. The majority has focused on adverse health and environmental impact; almost none on the geo-politics of GM seeds, and particularly seeds as a weapon of mass destruction. Engdahl has addressed this issue but the crop seed is one of the many “Seeds of Destruction” in this book.

Engdahl carefully documents how the intellectual foundations of ‘eugenics,’ mass culling of the sick, coloured, and otherwise disposable races, were actually first established, and even legally approved, in the United States. Eugenics research was financially supported by the Rockefeller and other elite families and first tested on Jews under Nazi Germany.

It is purely by chance that the world’s poorest nations also happen to be best endowed with natural resources. These regions are also the ones with growing population. The fear among European ruling families, increasingly, integrating with economic and military might of the United States, was that if the poor nations became developed, the abundant natural resources, especially oil, gas, and strategic minerals and metals, may become scarcer for the white population. That situation was unacceptable to the white ruling elite.

The central question that dominated the minds of the ruling clique was population reduction in resource rich countries but the question was how to engineer mass culling all over the world without generating powerful backlash as it was bound to happen. When the US oil reserves peaked in 1972 and it became a net oil importer, the situation became alarming and the agenda took the centre stage. Kissinger, one of the key strategists of Nixon, nurtured by the Rockefellers, prepared what is known as National Security Study Memo (NSSM#200), in which he elaborated his plan for population reduction. In this Memo he specifically targets thirteen countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey, Thailand, and The Phillipines.

The weapon to be used was food; even if there was a famine food would be used to leverage population reduction. Kissinger is on record for stating, “Control oil, you control nations; control food and you control the people.” How a small group of key people transformed the elitist philosophy, of controlling food to control people, into realistic operational possibility within a short time is the backdrop of Engdahl’s book, the central theme running from the beginning till the end with the Rockefellers and Kissinger, among others, as the key dramatis personae.

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Vladimir Putin met with Secretary-General-designate
of the United Nations António Guterres at the Kremlin.

November 24, 2016

15:50

The Kremlin, Moscow

Meeting with UN Secretary-General-designate António
Guterres.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Guterres,
welcome to Moscow.

This is not your first time in our country. We
met back in 2000 when you were the prime minister of Portugal,
and then several other times.

I would like to take this opportunity
to personally congratulate you on your election
to the important position of UN Secretary-General. This is
a very responsible and complex job.

Russia, as one of the founders
of the United Nations, has always supported its leading
and central role in international affairs and has been
in favour of it taking on a greater role in resolving
conflicts and upholding human rights.

We are in constant touch with your predecessor,
who will transfer his authority to you in January 2017, and we
look forward to establishing a similar constructive dialogue with
you.

(In English.) President Putin, it is
a great pleasure for me to be back.

As you very kindly remembered, I had
a chance to meet with you at the time
of the EU-Russia summit, but also the Russian-Portuguese summit
that you asked us to have after the EU-Russia summit. Also, as a High
Commissioner for Refugees, I had not only the pleasure
and the honour to meet you but also to have very important,
constructive and effective relations with your government that is
something that I will obviously never forget.

I fully recognise decisive role
of the Russian Federation not only in the UN but
in all aspects of international relations. And I would say
that an absolutely fundamental condition for me to be able
to be useful to the international community is to be able
to have a very constructive and positive dialogue
and relationship with the Russian Federation.

We live in a world with multiple threats
from the multiplication of new conflicts, the old conflicts that
never die, from the spread of a new form of global
terrorism to all challenges related, from climate change to food
insecurity and to many other threats to the wellbeing
of mankind.

I am a strong believer that global problems
only can have global solutions, that there is no way a unilateral approach
can solve them and I am a strong believer in the role
of multilateralism. But I know that the role
of the United Nations Secretary-General is not to be
the leader of the world. It is a much more modest one.
I will have plenty of things to do just to make sure that
the machine is able to work much better than in the past.
But looking at the enormous challenges in peace
and security, I would like to have to offer my good
services and as an added value to what necessarily is
the leadership of the member states.

Friday, November 25, 2016

Putin's 2015 UN speech on 'multipolar world' coming to fruition

John Wight has written for newspapers and websites across the world, including the Independent, Morning Star, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, London Progressive Journal, and Foreign Policy Journal. He is also a regular commentator on RT and BBC Radio. John is currently working on a book exploring the role of the West in the Arab Spring. You can follow him on Twitter @JohnWight1

When Vladimir Putin took the podium to address the delegates in attendance at the 70th UN General Assembly in New York on September 28, 2015 the sense that we were about to witness a seminal moment in history was inescapable.

And so it proved.

The speech the Russian leader proceeded to deliver to the delegates in attendance, along with an expectant world via the international media, was tantamount to announcing the birth of a multipolar world, one in which Washington would no longer enjoy the uncontested primacy and hegemony it had since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.

In a trenchant indictment, Putin reminded the delegates of the responsibility of Washington and its allies in destabilizing the Middle East since 9/11, and how their actions had unleashed chaos and crises to the point where it now threatened to reduce the entire region to a state of permanent anarchy. The most powerful moment in the speech came when he looked up from his notes and out to the assembled international delegates, whereupon, directly addressing the US government and political establishment, he said,“Do you now realize what you have done?”

It was a j’accuse delivered in the form of a simple question, penetrating the walls of propaganda that had been erected to conceal the truth of US exceptionalism. Russia was no longer a second tier power, Putin’s address confirmed, reduced to the role of bystander while Washington’s writ ran wherever it saw fit. And no longer was it, as unofficial representative of the emerging powers otherwise known as BRIC, prepared to accept a world in which the US, supported by its European allies, continued to treat international law as an optional extra where its interests were concerned, or the principle of national sovereignty as a gift to be bestowed or removed as it deemed fit rather than the universal and inalienable right enshrined in the UN Charter.

The European Union which exists now is not a union of nations, but is a union of the elites, and banks, which work only for the economy. It is not a Europe of nations, of course.

Indeed, there are some movements in Europe that understood this situation, and they have reacted. We can see what happened in Great Britain with Brexit. We know that Europe, even Italy and France, have such parties and movements which are radically against the European Union.

I’m certain that if Europe will arrange a referendum on staying or leaving the EU, the result would be “leaving.” It would be the decision of European nations. That’s why I believe that even thoughts on such a referendum (“for” or “against” the EU) are actually forbidden, as they know of our decision, our movement.

Of course, it is possible to destroy the EU. This would be possible even within the European Union. This must be done not by other countries, but must be our own decision as nations are supported by those movements whose members are called Eurosceptics. People would choose another direction.

I’m certain that such movements are likely to continue to exist, and I believe that they will be only stronger in the next year, as European nations have realized our destiny and our future. Thus, the elites are actively against this process.

I believe and I’m certain that we should build relations with Russia. Russia is a country that is situated on the same continent as us. We are all Eurasia. In my opinion, this will be part of such a question.

assange

At midday on Friday 5 February, 2016 Julian Assange, John Jones QC, Melinda Taylor, Jennifer Robinson and Baltasar Garzon will be speaking at a press conference at the Frontline Club on the decision made by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the Assange case.